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That covers more than most people,covers their families too. you have 48, 49 million people living below the poverty line. do you know what that is for a family of four. about $22,360. can you imagine that? in america we have that. that should not be tolerated. both sides have got to do whatever it takes and not break politics with it. by the way, if they didn t break politics for it, that would be the best politicment. do you think the occupy wall street movement has legitimate grievances? when you talk about how we need today have this federal bailout, yet when it comes to bailing out main street, it would seem that the administration has not moved as aggressively. well, let me just deal with the first part of it. there, i think there is i believe there is a legitimate. i do think that there is a perception that a lot of the major financial institutions were bailed out by huge gobs of federal money whereas the average working person was not. what are the benefits if the economy ....
charged with trying to blow up an american airlines plane with explosives hidden in his underwear. he s acting as his own attorney. violence between egypt s christians and muslims may lead to new legal protection for religious minorities. a group described as thugs attacked christian protestors. that happened on sunday. at least 25 people were killed after the army and police got into the mix. well, egypt s prime minister says he s going to push a law that is making religious discrimination a crime. but experts say there is only so much that he can do during military rule. the problem, john, is we ve got 24 men, that s the supreme council of the armed forces. they re like the wizard of oz. they re behind a curtain. they re ruling egypt without any responsibility. so they have the power and no responsibility, and then you have this prime minister, a decent man, who has the responsibility but he s got no power. egypt has set parliamentary elections for november 28, ....
more funerals in syria today. opposition activists say that 31 people died when syrian troops opened fire on sunday. the attacks on anti-american rather anti-government protesters took place in several cities. president assad is warning countries not to recognize the syrian national council, which is set up in turkey last week. that council appears to be positioning itself as syria s next government. crisis talks are happening in egypt today to head off new violence. fighting between muslims and christians left at least 25 people dead over the weekend. christians say they were peacefully protesting a church burning when they were attacked by people they describe as thugs. christians say egypt s military rulers aren t doing enough to protect them. it s a very volatile situation, and many critics say it s not helped by the actions, for instance, of state-run tv which last night called upon what it called honest egyptians to come down and join the army in fighting ag ....
up of mostly 20-somethings, they re angry about fat wall street paychecks, war, environment, you name it. the protests have been going on for three weeks now and now have spread to other cities. americans absolutely fed up with congress. new numbers leave no doubt that a washington post/abc news poll found just 14% of the public approves of the job that congress is doing. congress s lowest rating ever. amanda knox says right now, she just wants time with her family. knox is home in seattle today for the first time in four years. she went to italy for college studies but ended up in prison for murder. reminding me to speak in english because i m having problems with that. i m really overwhelmed right now. i was looking down from the airplane and it seemed like everything wasn t real. knox was serving a 26-year sentence for killing her roommate and appeals court overturned that murder conviction on monday. u.s. ambassador susan rice is calling it an outrage, she ....
i wasn t there. i wasn t present in that crime. prosecutors painted knox as a demonic figure who killed for the thrill. they described the murder as part satanic ritual and part orgy. the trial of conrad murray enters a second week in about 45 minutes. that s the michael jackson trial. the emergency room doctor who pronounced michael jackson dead is expected on the witness stand first. dr. rachelle cooper says that murray never told her that he d given jackson the anesthesia that allegedly killed him. murray s three girlfriends are expected to testify as well. phone records show that he talked to all three in the minutes before and after jackson went into cardiac arrest. protests by the group occupy wall street have spread from new york city to at least three other major cities. police arrested more than 700 protestors on saturday when they marched on the brooklyn bridge. occupy wall street, that group says it wants to draw attention to corporate greed and immoral ....